my preschooler has intermittent knee pain, need other parents experience/input?
my 3yr old daughter appears to be and is usually very healthy, but she does have random weird medical things happen to her. When she was 1-1&1/2 she was turning blue (still breathing) and getting really cold and her extremities would be a bit stiff. She's has reactive airway/asthma and reflux issues to this day. She also had osteomyelitis when she was 1&1/2 and had to have surgery on her left femur under her growth plate.
Lately she's been complaining about her knee (the last 6months) on and off. it's always when she's doing something active, but not every time she's active if that makes sense. It's always her left leg, and it always seems to get better when she calms down.
She also always surprises the doctors with her random diagnosis because she's happy and playing.... even when she had the bone infection it took 3 weeks to get a diagnosis because the dr. was convinced she would be refusing to walk if there was an infection - not just slightly limping like she was.
So, as you can imagine after realizing she's been compaining consistenly about the same knee for months, i've started to worry some.... any ideas on what my next step should be since she's not in obvious pain and it's not really predictable?
I have in fact called the pediatrician... she can't get in until Friday - and even though I have a great relationship with her, she was not my daughters doctor until last year, so she wasn't involved in her medical history persay. So, I like to have prepared topics, ideas, or questions to ask before appts which is why I posted this. In my experience with my daughter, she does not display typical characteristics of a sick kid when she's sick - so I have to really push to get things looked into and I don't want her to have to have unnecessary tests if this is just growing pains.
and when I say consistently complaining about her knee, I mean once every 1-2 weeks, not daily... and she is VERY active daily.
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1. It could be something as simple as growing pains, but then again it could be something else. Just get it checked out by her doctor, better safe than sorry. Poor kid, shes been through a lot. Hope everything goes okay.2. with your child's medical history, why are you not calling the pediatrician??
3. You should just take her to the doctor. Its werid that its the left knee, the same leg she had surgery on. I hope it has nothing to do with the infection or the surgery. It kinda sucks that its unpredictable because what are the chances that it will be bothering her while she is at the doctor. Either way, I think you should take her in at least to describe the pain.
